Festspielhaus Hellerau
Early modern theatre with an open stage and light-filled hall, built for a school of rhythmic movement.
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This guide to the Festspielhaus Hellerau on the edge of Dresden follows Marie Rambert, a young student of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, through the daily rhythm games of his eurhythmics school before the First World War. It brings in the summers of nineteen twelve and nineteen thirteen, when George Bernard Shaw, Stanislavski, Serge Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky came to watch. Best heard standing in the open hall, facing the floor where the students moved.
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